When Ella May Reavis was born in 1902, in Kentucky, United States, her father, John Calvin Reavis, was 31 and her mother, Rebecca Vadella Bynum, was 31. She married John Sam Ruark on 9 December 1919, in Massac, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Magisterial District 3, McCracken, Kentucky, United States in 1940. She died in 1969, in Paducah, McCracken, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 67.
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A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
From 1904-1909, the Black Patch War took place. This was a war between about 30 counties in southwestern Kentucky and northwestern Tennessee. The war was mostly over the Dark Fired Tobacco that was produced in the area during this time.
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
English: variant of Reeves .
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